Tourism transportation in New Zealand(新西兰旅游交通).doc

The impacts of tourism transportation on destination development and various stakeholders at the destination in New Zealand Tutor: Dr Albert Kimbu Group member: Long Mingjing 6241576 Cui Qingkai 6241566 Date of submission: October 8th 2012 Module: Travel and Transport Department: Tourism Management in SII Table of contents 1. Introduction 1 2. Role transportation plays in the facilitation of tourism experiences 2 2.1 History of tourism transportation development in New Zealand 2 2.2 Importance and roles of transportation in tourism 3 2.3 Relationship between transport and tourists’ travel experiences 4 3. The purpose and impacts of transportation policies in New Zealand 5 3.1 Purposes of transportation policies 5 3.2 Identification of the key transport sectors 5 3.3 Impacts of transportation policies 7 3.3.1 Allocative efficiency 7 3.3.2 Political Obligations 8 3.4 Negative impact of tourism policies 9 3.4.1 Lack of links between transport and other sectors 9 3.4.2 Social and environmental cost 9 4. Key transportation sectors and their contribution to tourism development-- 10 4.1 The air sector 10 4.2 The cruise sector 11 5. Impacts of transport on various stakeholders at the destination 12 5.1 Jobs 12 5.2 Connections among transport sectors 12 5.3 Connection with other industry 13 6. The need for future product development and innovation to achieve competitive advantages 13 6.1 From environmental perspective 13 6.2 From a strategic perspective 14 Reference 16 Appendix 19 Table 1 19 Table 2 20 Table 3 21 Table 4 221. Introduction Transportation is acknowledged as one of the most significant factors to have contributed to the international and domestic development of tourism (Stephen, 2009). In this essay, we focus New Zealand as tourism destination. First, we will introduce the history of tourism transport and its importance then draw links between tourism transpo